PS2 Horror Games: Top PS2 Horror Games

Silent Hill 2

Silent Hill 2[ is a survival horror video game published by Konami for the PlayStation 2 and developed by Team Silent, part of Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. It was released in September 2001 as the second installment in the Silent…

Silent Hill 3

Silent Hill 3 takes place in the fictional universe of the Silent Hill series. Seventeen years before the start of Silent Hill 3, Harry Mason defeated a god brought forth by a cult of Silent Hill and at the ending, was given a…

Fatal Frame

Fatal Frame, titled Zero in Japan and Project Zero in Europe, is a survival horror video game series created and primarily developed by Koei Tecmo (originally Tecmo), and currently co-owned by Koei Tecmo and Nintendo. Debuting in 2001 with…

Haunting Ground

Fiona Belli is an 18-year-old girl who recently moved to college. While visiting her parents, she is involved in a car accident, and awakens in a cage in the dungeon of a castle. Her memories of the incident are hazy. Noting that the cage that keeps…

Resident Evil 4

Six years after the events of Resident Evil 2, former Raccoon City police officer turned US government agent Leon S. Kennedy (Paul Mercier) is sent on a mission to rescue Ashley Graham (Carolyn Lawrence), the U.S.…

The Suffering

The game begins as Torque (who never speaks) is being escorted by CO Ernesto Alvarez (voiced by Mark Dias) onto death row in Abbott State Penitentiary on Carnate Island, off the coast of Maryland, an island with a long…

The Suffering: Ties That Bind

The Suffering: Ties That Bind is a 2005 first and third-person shooter psychological horror video game, developed by Surreal Software and published by Midway Games for PlayStation…

Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly

The plot of Fatal Frame II is independent from the first game in the series.[4] During the Amakura twins’ visit to their favorite childhood playspot in the Minakami region, Mayu follows a mysterious red butterfly deep into the…

Silent Hill 4: The Room

At the beginning of the game, Henry Townshend has been locked in his apartment in South Ashfield for five days with no means of communication and having recurring nightmares.[11] Shortly afterwards, a hole appears in the wall of his bathroom,…

Clock Tower 3

The story of Clock Tower 3 is set in London in 2003.[14] Alyssa Hamilton is a 14-year-old girl who has been living at a boarding school for three years. Her mother, Nancy, sent her there after her grandfather, Dick,…

Resident Evil Code: Veronica

Three months after escaping from Raccoon City, prior to its eventual destruction,[7] Claire Redfield raids an Umbrella Corporation facility in Paris in search of her brother Chris. Discovered by…

Siren

Siren is set in a Japanese village named Hanuda (Hanyūda in the Japanese version). With strong religious beliefs important in the area, the locals like to keep to themselves and have sought to keep Hanuda isolated from the outside…

Resident Evil Outbreak

Forbidden Siren 2

Like its predecessor, Forbidden Siren 2 is divided into numerous scenarios, organized chronologically in a table called the “Link Navigator”. In order to complete a scenario, the player must accomplish a primary mission…

ObsCure

Strange things are happening at Leafmore High. Three teenagers set out to search for their missing friend. Finding themselves locked inside the school overnight, they now have to get to the bottom of the strange occurrences. The player controls the…

Kuon

In Kuon, the player moves their character by tilting the analog stick in any direction. The player can also make their character move faster by running; however, this both drains the character’s health and attracts any nearby enemies. The…

Manhunt

Manhunt is a stealth-based survival horror video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was originally released for the PlayStation 2 on November 18, 2003, and…

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

Higurashi is a murder mystery game described as a “sound novel” by 07th Expansion. A sound novel is similar to a visual novel in that the gameplay requires relatively little player interaction as most of the…

Resident Evil Outbreak: File #2

File #2 is a continuation of the events that occur in the original Outbreak, though the exact order of the scenarios is left ambiguous. Though there is no concrete “start” to the game, it ends with the execution of Mission…

Rule of Rose

Taking place in England in 1930, Rule of Rose centers on Jennifer, a 19-year-old woman who is led to an abandoned orphanage by a small boy. She follows him to a grave in the courtyard, where she digs up a coffin with a bloody sack inside…

Silent Hill: Origins

Driving past Silent Hill as a shortcut, Travis swerves his truck to avoid hitting a spirit manifestation of Alessa. While following the spirit manifestation, he stumbles upon a burning house and rescues the real Alessa, who was immolated in a ritual…

Curse: The Eye of Isis

Strange things are happening at Great Britain’s museum of natural history in 1890. A gang of ruthless thugs have broken into the establishment, the Eye of Isis Egyptian statue has been stolen, and a mysterious fog has overtaken a number of areas…

Fatal Frame III: The Tormented

23-year-old freelance photographer Rei Kurosawa has been mourning the death of her fiancé, Yuu Asou, after a car accident caused by Rei’s reckless driving. About two months after his death, while on assignment for the derelict Kuze mansion,…

The Thing

The game begins at U.S. Outpost 31 in Antarctica, a short time after the events of the film. Two teams of U.S. Special Forces have arrived to investigate the U.S. camp and the nearby Norwegian camp. Captain J.F. Blake…

Manhunt 2

In 2007, at the Dixmor Asylum for the Criminally Insane, a severe thunderstorm causes the security system at the asylum to momentarily go offline, opening the cell doors throughout the facility, resulting in the populace wandering freely…

ObsCure II

The story is set two years after the “Leafmore Incident” (the events of the first Obscure); Shannon and Kenny are now enrolled in the nearby Fallcreek University, while Stan is reforming his life as a Delivery Truck Driver.…

Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare

Set on October 31, 2001. Edward Carnby‘s best friend and partner, Charles Fiske, has been found dead off the coast of Shadow Island, a mysterious island near the coast of Massachusetts. Carnby’s investigation quickly…

Extermination

Extermination is a survival horror game, and as such players are encouraged to run whenever they can. This idea is reinforced by the fact that ammunition is limited for the main character’s weapons (unlimited ammo refills are…

Resident Evil: Dead Aim

Dead Aim uses a third-person view when moving, but switches to a first-person view when aiming and firing a weapon, with a dot in the center of the screen to help the player aim. It is one of the few Resident…

Galerians: Ash

Galerians: Ash is a survival horrorvideo game developed by Polygon Magic for the SonyPlayStation 2. Galerians: Ash is the sequel to Galerians, a PlayStation game. It is a psychic action game with a dark setting. It follows the story of a…

Cold Fear

The X-Files: Resist or Serve

The game is set during the television series’ seventh season,[1] after the season’s second episode, “The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati.”[2] The game is divided across three levels, which are presented as new…

Gregory Horror Show

The first series, “The Nightmare Begins”, is a set of 25 stories about a businessman arriving at the hotel after taking a train home from work. He encounters the mysterious owner of the hotel, an old mouse known as Gregory, who suggests…

Akai Ito

To arrange the inheritance because of the loss of her mother, Kei Hatō heads for her father’s house in Hemizuka. In the train on the way there, Kei has a mysterious dream of a huge tree and a woman who seems to be lost in sadness. In…

City of the Dead

City of the Dead (also known as George A. Romero’s City of the Dead and The Living Dead: City of the Dead)[1] is a canceled first-person shootervideo game, based on George A. Romero‘s Living Dead series of zombie films. The…

Glass Rose

Glass Rose primarily takes place in a remote Japanese mansion in 1929. The player assumes the role of an amateur reporter named Takashi Kagetani. While exploring an abandoned mansion with his friend Emi in the year 2003, he is knocked…

Gabriel Knight

The Gabriel Knight characters and games were created by writer Jane Jensen, who also worked on King’s Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow with veteran game designer Roberta Williams. The music in the series was composed by…

Michigan: Report from Hell

In Michigan, players take the role of a rookie cameraman for ZaKa TV, the entertainment division of the powerful ZaKa conglomerate. Accompanied by Brisco, an outspoken sound engineer, and Pamela, a reporter, the player is…

Alone in the Dark

VAlone in the Dark is a survival horror video game series, originally developed by Infogrames.[1] In most of the games, the player controls private investigator Edward Carnby, who goes to investigate a haunted mansion or town that is full…